Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 206, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1924 — Page 3

THURSDAY, JAN. 10, 1924

WELFARE SOCIETY AIM IS EXTENSION OF CHARITY WORK First Annual Meeting Names Eleven Directors for Current Year. The Family Welfare Society this year will work for the further development of facilities for caring for the unfortunate. Its program, as outlined by Paul L. Benjamin, general secretary, at. the first annual meeting at the Lincoln Wednesday night, includes. Development of mental hygiene work. Establishment of a mental hygiene clinic and a psychopathic hospital. Additional staff facilities for the society. A comprehensive employment bureau. A dietician for the society and research in fields of health and child welfare. Other officials of the society also made reports. Twenty directors were named, eleven to serve three years, four to years, and five to serve one year. For three-year terms: George Buck. Mrs. Russell Fortune. Alexander R. Holliday, Mrs. Joseph B. Kealing, Herman P. Lieber. Mrs. Richard Lieber, Leo M. Rappaport, Dr. James H. Taylor, John F. White, the Rev. Frank S. C. Wicks and Mrs. Frank W. Woods. Mr. Buck and Mr. Lieber were the only two newly elected candidates, the others being re-elected. For two-year terms: Dr. Freeman H. Hibben, Mrs. Montgomery Lewis. Evans Woollen Jr., and Charles R. Yoke. For one-year terms: Martha Carey. Mrs. Helen Hare Ritchie, Dwight S. Ritter, Mansur B. Oakes and Dr. Alt's h W. Taylor. REMUS APPEAL TO COURT REJECTED! - Cincinnati Attorney Must Serve Sentence, George Remus, Cincinnati lawyer, who Federal prohibition officers allege was%iead of one of the largest liquor rings in the United States, and who was convicted at Cincinnati more than a year ago of violating prohibition laws, has his appeal to the United States Supreme Court. He was sentenced to two years in the Federal prison at Atlanta. Ga. His arrest resulted from investigations in raids made by Bert C. Morgan, prohibition director for Indiana, and Federal agents on Death Valley Farm, just over the Indiana line, in Ohio. At the time, it was said Remus offered Morgan bribes aggregating $500,000. Remus is under indictment in Federal Court in Indianapolis.

FIRE RUINS YIELD BOBYOFWOMAN Bloomington Blaze Causes Damage of $50,000, By United f ee** BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Jan. 10.— Fire which raged in the center of the business district here Wednesday night, causing the death of one woman and property damage estimated at $60,000, was brought under control early today after an all-night fight by the entire fire department. The Family Shoe Store and the Grand Leader department store burned. Smoke and water did heavy <lamage to firms adjoining. Mrs. L. G. Buckley, 60, who lived in rooms above the shoe store, was suffocated. Her body was found in the ruins this morning. CHAIR FACTORY BURNS Loss at Bloomfield Plant $50,000; Sixty .Men Thrown Out of Work. Ity United Press BLOOMFIELD, Ind., Jan. 10. —Fire ■ •iriy today destroyed the plant of the Faucett-Vanmeter Chair Company with a loss estimated by company officials at more than $60,000. Sixty men were thrown out of work by the fire, origin of which is unknown council” MEETS JAN. 16 County Iby artments Prepare to Settle 1923 Finances. The Marion county council will meet in special session at 10 a. m., Jan. 16. County Auditor Harry Dunn announced today. All departments which finished 1923 •with a deficit will make application for amounts needed and departments with surpluses will submit statements preliminary to return of money to the general fund. Civic Interests Broadened Plans to devote more attention to civic problems are being made by the Mercator Club. The club ajso will conduct a membership campaign, each member to obtain another. The membership of the club is limited to two members from each profession until the total membership Is 100, when three members from each profession will be admitted. Colored Truck Driver Killed H'l Times tiyrrinl NEW ALBANY, Ind., Jan. 10.— Spurgeon Johnson, 38. colored truck driver, was killed here late Wednesday when his truck was struck by a Monon freight train at the Indiana Ave. crossing

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HERE IS PART OF THE LIQUOR OFFICIALS CONFISCATED AT A HOTEL IN GREYBULL, WTO., IN A JOINT RAID BY COUNTY AND FEDERAL FORCES. THIS PARTICULAR LOT, SAY THE SLEUTHS. WAS IN THE HOTEL'S “STOCK ROOM.”

TRACTION JUMPS TRACKS; 8 HURT Interurban Car Is Derailed Near Marion, By Lnitcd Press MARION. Ind.. Jan. 10.—Eight persons were recovering today from injuries received late yesterday when an interurban car jumped the track in the outskirts of Marion and after running on the pavement for 200 feet, turned over on its side. George Swathwood, 12. was standing on the sidewalk and was struck by the car. He* was severely cut and bruised. Os the passengers, those most severely injured are: Mrs. Ixiuis Freital, Fairmount: E. T. Love, Elwood; George Hill of near Fairmount; Mrs. Retta Crisco. Fairmount:- Tommy McMahon, conductor; Mrs. E. W. Ken and daughter. Fairmount, and Mrs. D. J. Riggs, Fairmount. All suffered cuts and bruises. NURSERY HAS BUSY YEAR Fifty Children a Day Is Average for 1923—Cost $12,562. An average of fifty children daily attended the Indianapolis Day Nursery, 530 W. Vermont St.,.Jn 1923, at a cost of 53.5 cents a day each, the supervisor's report shows today. Mrs. J. D. lloss Is the new president, the annual election of officers late Wednesday. Mrs. Joseph B. Kealing was elected vice president and Miss Dorothy Cunningham second vice president. Receipts for the year totaled $13,068.70 and disbursements $12,562.50. Dr. Judson D. Moschelle and Dr. William Long were continued as attending physicians.

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LEADER IS ASSASSINATED Separatists and Populace Clash in State of the Palatinate. By t'nited Press BERLIN, Jan. 10. Separatists clashed ■with the populace in Speyer today after the assassination of Herr Heitz, president of the autonomous state of the Palatiante, a dispatch said today. Five persos were killed in a fight in the same restaurant where Heintz was shot. CITIZEN BURNED AT GARAGE FIRE 9 # Two Automobiles Damaged— Loss Given as $750, A fire, increased by explosion of j two auto gasoline tanks destroyed a ' large frame garage in the rear of 530 S. Keystone Ave., owned by Devon* J. Frantz, early today. Firemen say a citizen giving his name as A. Chalmers, address unknown. suffered burns about the arms and face and went to his home after they administered first aid. The fire gained considerable head way before It was discovered. Origin is unknown. The department threw wa.:er on surrounding homes on account of the great heat to save them. The autos were owned by Ralph Reed and Michael Brooks, both of the above address. Loss was estimated at $750. Slate Fall Kills Mlner fiy Times Special CLINTON. Ind.. Jan. 10.—Andrew Roscoe. 60, of Andrews was killed Wednesday under a fall of slate In Crown Hill mine No. 2 west of here Wednesday. He le-aves a widow and five children.

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LITTLE GUIDANCE GIVEN IN SEARCH FOR HOLD-UP MEN Armed Bandits Get $lO in One Robbery—Nothing in Second, Police today investigated two holdups, with only meager descriptions of the bandits. Louis Lloyd, 410 Hanson St., told officers two armed men held him up near his home Wednesday night. They ,took $lO. Lloyd said both talked like colored men. William Peffley, 1204 N. Tuxedo St., reported he was held up by a man with a blue steel revolver. Peffiey said he had only ten cents. Boarder Takes Own Clothes Dr. F. P. Bitters, who conducts a rooming house at 126 W. Walnut St., told police a roomer climbed through a window and got two boxes of clothing Bitters was holding for his bill. Laura Hall, colored, 334 N. Missouri St., found two colored men asleep in her bed. They gave their names as Asco Scribner and Enoch Lockat after they left a roomer. Rose Spencer, colored, discovered $32 missing. Other reports: Covaine Stolen Dr. William F. Rust, 1032 S. East St., half ounce of cocaine from office. William Tinder, 1417 W. TwentySeventh St., watch valued at $57.50 from Y. M. C. A. looker. B. F. Monday, 929 Park Ave., doublebarreled revolver, value, $16.50. LEGION CONSIDERS UNION OF POSTS J, W, Ebaugh Drafts Plan of Cooperation, Cooperation of twenty eight American Legion posts in a union, to be known as the Indianapolis legion Association. will be considered by post representatives Jan. 25. The St. Mihiel-Loer post. No. 148, adopted a plan for anew association Wednesday night. Proposal for a consolidated post was rejected. The plan includes provisions for keeping of poet charters, cooperation on public occasions, establishment of a central clubhouse, and clearing up of Indebtedness of the former Marion County Legion council. J. W. Ebaugh drafted the new plan. STATEROTARYTO MEETATSPRINGS Bedford Club Host to Annual Convention, By Times Special BEDFORD, Ind., Jan-. 10.—The Bedford Rotary Club is making plans to I act as host to Rotary Clubs of the State when member clube of the Twentieth district of Rotary- International meet for annua) conference at French Lick and West Baden Springs, 1 Feb. 21-22. Entertainment including golf, bowling and a grand ball in the antrim of the West. Baden hotel is being arranged. Representatives froifi every 1 Rotary club In Indiana are expected.

Thin? She Fell Through Flute; Didn’t Hit a Note

“It was a swell day. The sun went down like a fried egg. Masie’s auburn hair looked like an exploded can of tomato soup. She was so thin she could fall through a flute and never strike a note. She was as happy as a traffic policeman with flat feet. But I was as discouraged as a frog-catcher in the Sahara.” Some genius with the combined wit of F. P. A.. Don Marquis, Charles Hanson Towne. and a host of others might have written the foregoing paragraph. These writers and many others ax-e repi-esented in "A Dictionary of Similes,” published by Little, Brown & Cos. The collection was made by Frank J. Wilstach. A number of them, not all facetious, follow: Harmless as filtered water.—Thomas Beer. Nimbly as a woman to a dance.—E. Barrington. „ Her head poised like a parachute.— Zona Gale. About as neat as a coal-heaver’s nails. —Anon. Absurd Hottentot Absurd as a Hottentot marooned on an iceberg.—Anon. About as much privacy as a statue in the park.—Anon. Acrimonious as post-mortems of the bridge table. —Anon. Fleeting as a ferryboat shoe-shine. —Franklin P. Adams. He felt like the symptoms on a medicine bottle.—George ' Ade. Noisy as iron waves, splashing and dashing on an iron ocean.—Anon. Dumb as the man who thought a football coach has four wheels.—Anon. Your eyes are like loot from a cathedral.—Eleanor Hollowed Abbott. Married men are like Ford cars. You can tell them by their clutch.— Anon. Some men are like the Einstein theory, nobody at home understands them. —Anon. Infinitesimal as a defeated candidate’s opinion of himself softer election. —Anon. Needful as the sun.—George Moore. Naked as the moon. George Sterling. Flrpo was as open as an umbrella. —Neal O'Hara. Wistful as a letter lying unclaimed. —Sarah Sapor. Yesterday’s Shave Out of date as yesterday’s shave. — George Nathan. Solid as the skutl of a Congressman.—lleiyy L. Mencken. Pathetic as an octogenarian messenger boy.—Charlotte Leßeau. Beautiful as one i‘ed rose in a garden of lilies.—Robert Nichol. One star, serene and still, hangs like an altar light.—Maurice Morris. Hospitable as a hungry shark to a swimming missionary- Frederick O’Brien. About as easy as to do up an elephant in a shawl strap. —Channing Pollock. *. The grey marsh clouds are tangled like angle worms in a pail.—Elliott H. Paul. Laughter, like love, is an expression

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of man’s vehement revolt against reason.—William J. Locke. Difficult as finding a SSO bill on the floor of a poorhouse.—Joseph C. Lincoln. An husband, like unto religion and medicine, must be taken with blind faith.—Helen Rowland. About as thrilling as a lesson in swimming would be to a middle-aged gold fish. —H. C. Wltwer. Homely as Mrs. Devil.—Anon. Distressing as an amatur cocktail.— Anon. Her mouth opened like a folding bed.—Anon. No more privacy than a Broadway waffle cook. —Anon. Porcupine Blister Difficult as to put a blister on a porcupine.—Anon. Felt as out of place as an Elk at Oxford. —Pei-cy Hammond. Littered with debris as a picnic train.—Gei-trude Atherton. Eyes slit, like wise, smiling old buttonholes. —Fanny Hurst. Face like a three-parts denated football.—A. S. M. Hutchinson. Lonely as a bachelor looking at Niagax-a Falls in June. —Arthur Bauer. His voice was like a buzz saw striking a rusty nail. —Arthur Folwell. More money than the telephone company’s got wrong numbers.—Sam Heilman. About as much chance as a quaxt of whisky on an Indian reservation. — Petef B. Kyne. Slowly pronouncing and delivering the words like a man pitching quoits. —D. H. Lawrence. His heart knocked like a FYxrd car RED PEPPER STOPS BACKACHE, LUMBAGO The heat of red peppers takes the “ouch” from a sore, lame back. It can not hurt you. and it certainly ends the torture at once. When you are suffering so you can hardly get around, just try Red Pepper Rub, and you will have the quickest relief known. Nothing has such concentrated, penetrating heat as red peppers. Just as soon as you apply Red Pepper Rub you will feel the tingling heat. In three minutes it warms the sore spot through and through. Pain and soreness are gone. Ask any druggist for a jar of Rowles Red Pepper Rub. Be sure to get the genuine, with the name Rowles on each package.

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trying to climb the roof of a Methodist Church —Gelett Burgess. The face of the world looks as though it had shaved itself with a broken beer bottle while standing on a barrel in a cyclone.—Benjamin De Casseres. Woman is like a gain. Her range is limited. But in the home she hits a man like ten thousands of bricks.—G. K. Chesterton. She looked like a fire in a pawn shop—fairly covered with diamonds an’ watches an’ chains.—E. P. Dunne. The odds against a whist player holding all the trumps are 158,763,389,899 to one.

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english’s c rrr “POWDER RIVER” Official War Dept. Films of WORLD WAR Anrtplcttfl Veterans of Foreign Wars. Reserved heat Halo Start* Today PRICES—Mat. A Sat., 50c, 35c, 50. Kve. & Sat. Mat., SI.OO, 75c, 50c. War Tan Exempt.

Capitol All This Week. Twice Dally—--2: 15 and 8:15. Popular Prices. COLUMBIA BURLESQUE PRESENTS J I G TIME WITH a .AIRE DEVINE MORAN A WISER AND 'JO ALIA'RING VAMPS laidin.! This coupon and 250 will admit lady to bent reserved seat any matinee except Sundays or holidays.

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Tonight, :•;<>, Tomorrow, S;u. Mat., Eve. America's Favorite Artor-Slnjrer CHAUNCEY OLCOTT “The Heart of Paddy Whack.” Price*—Eve.. 50c. SI.OO. 51.50. 53.00. Sat, Mat., 50c, SI,OO, 51,50, Pins Tax. Hlii iIERJCA’S GREATEST TOUKWG ORGAJtEATW*. OK HUMORED PUPIL MSTWCUHKD AMEIICAI lift iumpiah urn SYXPW’fr wchisiwl traiuM acta. k?fju stal sums. Matinee: “Madame Butterfly.’* with Tamakl Miura. Evening: “Laßoheme,” “with Anna Fltzlu. Seats now selling. Prices: >l.lO, 5i.65. 33.20, *2.75, $3.30. All Next Week Mats. Wednesday and Saturday Seats Now Selling ni°SS9H Ktimi !p ; JS W ITH ORIGINAL i Me Prices, Eve., 55c, *1 sl ’ lo ' sl ’ 6s, $2 - 20 > ’Jn Jmb- $2.75, Inc. Tax. Wed - Mat ’ tf*l fiC ■JW Party Best Seats. P 1 .OiJ If Monday Balcony, 55 c> Rl.io, *1.65 Sat. Mat., 55c, sl.lO, $1.65, $2.20

MOTION PICTURES NOW SHOWING “The ACQUITTAL" Famous Mystery Playl^eaturing CLAIRE WINDSOR • NORMAN KERRY RICHARD TRAVERS BARBARA BEDFORD A1 St. John Comedy "SLOW AND SURE" PATHE NEWS LESTER HUFF AND THE OHIO ORCHESTRA Coming Next Week Gloria Swanson in "ZAZA

APOLLO £ “THE TEMPLE OF VENUS” With Mary Philbin, PhyUis Haver and 1,000 American Bea&tles. WILL ROGERS COMEDY “UNCENSORED MOVIES” Chas B. Lines—New Songs Virgil Moore's APOLLO ORCHESTRA ALL NEXT WEEK WESLEY BARRY (In Person) on the Screen In His New Comedy Drama, “The Country Kid”

t w ft a. t aT*-" - IT’S A SENSATION!! “BLACK OXEN” From Gertrude Atherton's Famous Novel A First National Picture First Time Here AXEL CHRISTENSEN SYMPHO-SYNCOPATION AT THE PIANO Overture “OBERON” By C. M- Von Weber OTHER CIRCLE FEATURES PQ WE ADVISE YOU • TO COME EAR^Y

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